Legends of the Hole

by Rich Boucher

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What was that behind me?
What was that sound?

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My car stalled out in the middle of the night, last Sunday night in October. I was on Route 65, about 9 miles from town in a pretty desolate patch of road, fringed on either side by foggy marsh only a little bit visible under the starlight and the disappearing moonlight. It was nearly completely dark. It felt completely dark. I knew there was a gas station about four miles ahead, so I locked the car and started walking. I’d only been walking about ten minutes when I could have sworn I heard faint footsteps behind me. Almost close, too. The only thing I’d been hearing before that moment was my own thoughts and the wind. My pulse started to quicken and I walked faster, following the white line on the side of the road. The footsteps behind me seemed to slow down a bit, but they never completely disappeared.

I was just beginning to think I’d earned a sense of relief when I noticed that I was hearing the footsteps again, this time more than one set of footsteps behind me. And then I heard the moaning. I’d never believed in ghosts or zombies, but I also knew I was not imagining this!

I walked faster, nearly running, but the horrible moan of whatever that thing (or things) behind me kept up, like whatever it was could sense that I was prey and that it wanted to rip my skin right off of my bones! I didn’t want to break into actual running though, for fear that I’d be overtaken...

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released November 23, 2018
Text and Music: Rich Boucher
Sound Effects and Atmospherics: Rich Boucher
Original Photo by Ihor Malytskyi

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Rich Boucher Albuquerque, New Mexico

Rich Boucher is a performance poet whose poems have appeared in Adobe Walls: An Anthology of New Mexico Poetry, Fickle Muses, The Rag, The Malpais Review, Menagerie, Clutching at Straws, Shot Glass Journal, Sparkbright, The Mas Tequila Review, The Legendary and The Nervous Breakdown, among others. ... more